Is Economic Inequality Present In Modern Day America?

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently proposed the New Green Deal earlier this year to help provide a financial and policy solution to the ever growing problem in our country that should be a priority: climate change. The New Green Deal aims to tax the wealthiest people at a high income tax rate in order to provide government funding for programs that is meant to tackle climate change in the greater United States.

In her 60 minutes interview with Anderson Cooper, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez admits that the idea of a New Green deal is ambitious and potentially pushes our country’s ecological technology. If passed in Congress and signed into law, the New Green Deal would tax people who make an annual income of more than $1 million a year with a supplemental tax income of more than 70%. The tax would go directly towards a Congressional committee on climate change so that they could allocate funds into programs that will help reduce climate change long before 2050.

Part of the effort is inspired by the challenges that climate change poses for our future. It’s only radical for some, if not most of her critics, because the United States has not seen or experience tax hikes before the Ronald Reagan era to produce an electric economy within the next twelve years. I firmly believe that the United States, with it’s rampant history in it’s racism and white supremacy has created a systematic structure where communities of color are neglected throughout the country when it comes to their health concerns, which is mostly caused by environments that they are living in. People who have a higher income have better health. People who live in poverty can be exposed to more polluted areas and not be able to live longer due to polluted areas are more likely to die from causes that are in their environment. It is that simple and it is why we need to pass the New Green Deal.